A 21 year old online poker player, Nick Schulman is the new World Poker Tour champion following the finals this week. He takes home over $2 million in prize money after just over three and a half hours of play in the final to enter the history books as the youngest player yet to take the title.
This year’s WPT final was reportedly short but sweet, at least for Schulman – of the 89 hands that were played at the final table, only 18 of them even saw the flop.
Runner up Tony Licastro fought hard, going all-in pre-flop no less than sixteen times, and walking away from the table $1 035 000 richer. Other contenders at the final table were Bill Gazes who finished third with a take home of $759,000, Allen Cunningham fourth at $483,000, Lyle Berman fifth at $345,000, and Lenny Cortellino in sixth place at $276,000.